Having worked around financial crimes for a number of years, I noticed they seemed to be on the rise.
One reason for this is technology, which grows more rapidly than laws designed to protect us from it.
Although the blog is a resource to educate people on identity theft, it also strives to educate the common person on the rapidly growing problem of crimes enabled (made too easy) by technology and the Internet.

Credant Technologies did a scary survey back in October, which stated:

"Everyone knows to guard their devices when they're traveling, but the results we found about the office were quite shocking," said Bob Heard, CREDANT Technologies CEO. "What we discovered were corporate environments that are careless and even reckless with laptops, many of which contain crucial company and personal data. And the ease with which these laptops are being stolen in the workplace is stunning."

Technology has made all of our lives a lot easier, however it has also exposed us to a growing crime wave. In addition to using "technology" to develop countermeasures, perhaps a little common sense should be added to the equation.

It shouldn't be so easy to commit a major breach of sensitive information!

This kind of thing is not exclusive to user either. I know of an "IT expert" who recently left a laptop with no local admin password default user name and over 50 Client vpn connections sitting at a clients. Best part is he had no clue what he had done with it until I told him I found it.......

I agree that having sensitive information on a laptop in your vehicle isn't exactly smart. What is considered safe these days? File/file system encryption, two-factor authentication even with biometrics, RFID or access tracking measures for mobile computing. All of these measures equal cost, even at $500-1000 per machine. It doesn't "appear" to be cost effective for companies to invest in these protections until something like this happens. Even locked in your office, how safe is it really? Eventually companies will say "enough is enough" and security will begin receiving the attention it needs. But it's going to have to be something larger than someone's laptop being stolen. Until then, the headlines will keep coming in.